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The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff Jeanne De Salzmann
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Inc.

Ouspensky explained the ideas of George Gurdjieff–an Armenian philosopher who had travelled extensively in the Near and Far East–in his The Fourth Way: A Record of Talks and Answers to Questions Based on the Teachings of .This is our chief illusion. .because you cannot remember yourself. A Comparison and Analytical Relation Between Swedenborg's "Will" and "Understanding", And Gurdjieff's "Being" and "Knowledge". You read Ouspensky, and spend your time wishing you could find a fourth way school, but you never found one. Jeanne de Salzmann's The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff appears to be one of these sorts of books. I feel this intelligence awaken. Before pontificating on esotericism, tell me what is you connection with Gurdjieff? In addition to being a faithful presentation of major aspects of the Gurdjieff teaching, the book thereby also provides much material about the life of Gurdjieff and the early history of what has now become known as “the work.” Gurdjieff describes his teaching as representing the fourth way, not the way of bodily struggle (the way of the fakir), nor the way of purification of the emotions (the way of the monk), nor the way of purification of the mind (the way of the yogi). You don't need to be a part of any of that. .generally you do not remember yourself. Emanuel Swedenborg was a scientist and religious mystic, as was Gurdjieff, also. .when in reality we are divided into hundreds of different “I”s. A Fourth Way Group in New York City. As to my knowledge of Gurdjieff, I wouldn't care to argue the point. From ~ The Reality of Being: The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, pgs. Being awake means being awake to both these, not grasping at one over the other, but being awake to both realities – living in two worlds. When such people talk about esotericism, the reality is a reserved group to which anyone dumb enough to fall for Ouspensky wouldn't ever be admitted.